DaveG703 Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 The cropping tool does not work. Clicking on the icon merely changes the cursor. I can shift the photo on the background, but that's all. I watched the cropping tutorial 3 times. The only thing I learned was that the demo had a different layout of tools on the toolbar than I had, and there was no context toolbar displayed when the crop icon was selected. It was nothing but a black band. The tutorial demo showed a default of the thirds grid as soon as the crop tool was selected. That did not happen for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted October 25, 2016 Staff Share Posted October 25, 2016 Hi DaveG703, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) The Crop Tool you are describing is from Affinity Designer, which is an object based crop tool. The videos you are seeing are probably from Affinity Photo which has a document based crop tool with several options in the context toolbar. Those are different programs and their crop tools also differ in how they work. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveG703 Posted October 26, 2016 Author Share Posted October 26, 2016 I do not question what you have said, but I don't see that as a response to my problem. Therefore I will state it more directly: How in heck do I get the crop tool to work in the Beta of Affinity Designer? (If indeed it works at all.) It is the only Affinity program I have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted October 26, 2016 Staff Share Posted October 26, 2016 Hi DaveG703, I'm sorry i should have been more clear. To use it select the object/layer you want to crop then drag the rectangular handles that will appear around the bounding box of the object on canvas to crop it (check the clip below). Make sure the object is not locked. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 The Affinity Designer Vector Crop Tool will only crop objects. To use it for that, select it, click on a vector shape, & drag the handles that appear at the edges of the selected shape, or drag the shape itself. (The status bar at the bottom of the workspace window briefly tells you how to use the tool, so you can refer to that.) It will not work like the cropping tool you saw in the video (no thirds grid, no context toolbar options) because the video shows the Affinity Photos crop tool, which works differently. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted October 26, 2016 Staff Share Posted October 26, 2016 The Vector Crop Tool works on all type of objects vector based or not. It can also be used to crop (image) and (pixel) layer types. The main difference apart from the options offered in the context toolbar for the Crop Tool in Photo is that in Designer the Vector Crop Tool is object based rather than document based, which means it will NOT crop the document - just the selected object. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianni Becattini Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 Normally I crop the canvas by using from Designer the "Edit in Photo" command. It works and I am satisfied of that. Then I go back in Designer. But now I have a Designer file that, when I pass to Photo, gets the crop tool disabled (greyed). Why? Thanks Quote More than 30 Macs, from 1984 Mac 512K Plus to 2020 iMac 27" i9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 2 hours ago, Gianni Becattini said: Why? Because it has artboards. Not compatible with the pixel crop tool. An artboard is essentially the master crop tool in Designer. Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 42 minutes ago, loukash said: Because it has artboards. Not compatible with the pixel crop tool. An artboard is essentially the master crop tool in Designer. On Windows the Crop Tool is still available in Photo when the document has Artboards. However, when you click Apply the cropping you have setup is thrown away, and the document remains unchanged. That's different from the behavior that @Gianni Becattini described. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 1 hour ago, walt.farrell said: On Windows the Crop Tool is still available in Photo when the document has Artboards. Not the only Mac vs Win difference, haha… Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 44 minutes ago, loukash said: Not the only Mac vs Win difference, haha… Since "Apply" apparently doesn't do anything I don't think it matters. 😄 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianni Becattini Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 I understand that this depends on Artboards. But can I go back from an Artboard-design to a non-Artboard-design? Thanks Quote More than 30 Macs, from 1984 Mac 512K Plus to 2020 iMac 27" i9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 4 hours ago, Gianni Becattini said: I understand that this depends on Artboards. But can I go back from an Artboard-design to a non-Artboard-design? As far as I know, no, except by copy/pasting content into a new document. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loukash Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 3 hours ago, Gianni Becattini said: can I go back from an Artboard-design to a non-Artboard-design Sure. Select the Artboard layer, hit the Delete key, in the dialog window confirm Keep Objects. walt.farrell and Alfred 2 Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianni Becattini Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 Wonderful, thanks! Quote More than 30 Macs, from 1984 Mac 512K Plus to 2020 iMac 27" i9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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